33C Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 2 hours ago, eastwestdivide said: In that collection, was there any significance to the pair of horizontal white bands on many of the NCB internal users? Top of load/load level? I've seen 16T's with slots cut into the sides and was told that was the maximum load level. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted May 30, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30, 2022 18 minutes ago, 33C said: I've seen 16T's with slots cut into the sides and was told that was the maximum load level. When 16T's were reused on engineer's trains for spoil/spent ballast. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 18 minutes ago, 33C said: Top of load/load level? I've seen 16T's with slots cut into the sides and was told that was the maximum load level. But that was after transfer to the engineers mainly to carry spoil, a lot denser material than coal, so easy to overload a 16tonner. Look at how similar an Iron ore tippler is, but they have heavier journals and can carry 27 tons in much the same load space. Paul 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 30, 2022 Author Share Posted May 30, 2022 10 hours ago, Michael Edge said: Nice photo but that's a TH Vanguard not a Planet. I meant Plant not planet. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted May 30, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 30, 2022 Cohens, Kettering 1976 by Dave Peachey 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 15 hours ago, 33C said: Top of load/load level? I've seen 16T's with slots cut into the sides and was told that was the maximum load level. I wondered about that and dismissed it because many in that collection are visibly loaded far higher than the lines, and also there are lines are on 16t minerals in that collection, which were designed to be brim full of coal. As Paul said, the slots in traffic ones were for denser material. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 31, 2022 Author Share Posted May 31, 2022 Butterley Engineering 1997 by Dave Peachey 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted June 1, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 1, 2022 Stanton Works 1986 by Dave Peachey 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 2, 2022 Author Share Posted June 2, 2022 WL5 & WL3 at South Gosforth Tyne & Wear Metro 1989 by Dave Peachey WL1 & WL4 WL2 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 At first I thought it was snow. Then I thought it was china clay dust. Eventually I realised it's just a very high contrast picture of Fowey Station at a busy time. But a great scene either way. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KeithMacdonald Posted June 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 2, 2022 A slightly better picture of Fowey Station from a slightly different angle. The sidings may have gone but the platforms and buildings still remain (in April 1968) 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 11 hours ago, montyburns56 said: WL5 & WL3 at South Gosforth Tyne & Wear Metro 1989 by Dave Peachey WL1 & WL4 WL2 A group of us in a minibus turned up unannounced at South Gosforth on a Sunday morning in 1986 and were given a full tour of the place - including the Control Room! Bet you couldn't do that nowadays..... 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 Meldreth and Melbourn station 1982 by Blue-pelican railway 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Blandford1969 Posted June 3, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 3, 2022 (edited) Nice, but I prefer it as it was probably in the 1920s, from the J.V Russell collection Edited June 3, 2022 by Blandford1969 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 There was a tramway to the yard, to bring coprolites, which were used as a source of fertiliser, for loading to main line wagons, and I think that building with a windmill poking out of the roof might have been something to do with that industry. A fest of pointwork, eh? 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 I make it 5 points + a double slip + a wagon turntable? Interesting layout though. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 2 hours ago, Nearholmer said: There was a tramway to the yard, to bring coprolites, which were used as a source of fertiliser, for loading to main line wagons … Ah, the Cambridgeshire Coprolite Rush: https://www.amazon.com/Cambridgeshire-Coprolite-Mining-Cambridge-county/dp/0902675613 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Not only Cambridgeshire: the “rush” extended to the Beds/Bucks border too. Sadly desecrated by the building of a big road and lots of houses in the past few years, but it was possible to trace the route of a coprolite tramway near where I live, from the vestiges of a pit on a hillside, down across several big fields to the river, where weirs and channels had been created to wash the valuable nodules, before they were schlepped a short bit further to be loaded into canal boats. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 On 27/05/2022 at 10:44, Andy Kirkham said: A few years ago "Not Jeremy" remarked that one of my photos was rather similar to a published one by Hugh Dady. A few of my photos are almost identical to published photos, but that’s because the person who took the published ones was standing beside me when I took mine 😀. I’m sure that sort of thing will apply to some other ERs too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 6 hours ago, pH said: A few of my photos are almost identical to published photos, but that’s because the person who took the published ones was standing beside me when I took mine 😀. I’m sure that sort of thing will apply to some other ERs too. Absolutely! Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 4, 2022 Author Share Posted June 4, 2022 "When I were a lad, my family was so poor that we couldn't afford a holiday, but sometimes as a special treat we'd all get dressed up and watch other people going on theirs" Perth 1963 by Phil 8 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 5, 2022 Author Share Posted June 5, 2022 Stoke Wagon Repairs 1986 by Huw Millington 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 I had no idea how accurate tinplate tank wagons, made by the ‘tab and slot’ method were. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 On 04/06/2022 at 20:01, montyburns56 said: "When I were a lad, my family was so poor that we couldn't afford a holiday, but sometimes as a special treat we'd all get dressed up and watch other people going on theirs" When I wuzz a lad in Devon, we would bicycle over to Newton Abbot and watch them arriving. Quote The site of the old Motor Rail Terminal at Newton Abbot station. The building to the left is The Maltings and the branch off to the left originally reached Moretonhampstead 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 6, 2022 Author Share Posted June 6, 2022 Betws Y Coed 1968 by KDH Archive 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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